Art and culture, improper synonymy

Abstract

This article arose from the perception of a common conceptual imprecision in works about cinema, namely, the propagation of ambiguity among the terms art and culture. However, in practical terms, the meaning of each of these terms seems to be associated with the existence of implied matrices that guide specific understandings of the communicative object – the artistic and culturalist matrices. Starting from the interpretations undertaken by Paul Ricoeur and Robert Stam about Aristotelian notion of mimesis, this article seeks to make a cleaning conceptual terrain to clarify the meanings that the terms art and culture take inside artistic and culturalist matrices